Karen Hunter Quartz
Moore Hall 2341
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Karen Hunter Quartz
Adjunct Professor; Director, UCLA Center for Community Schooling
Professor Quartz’s scholarship examines community school development, teacher autonomy and retention, and social transformation. In 2007, she led the design team to create the UCLA Community School and in 2017 served on the design team for a second site, the Mann UCLA Community School. She currently oversees a portfolio of research-practice partnerships at both schools designed to advance democracy, justice, and education.
Departments
Programs
Interests
- Career Development
- Community Schooling
- Community-Engaged Scholarship
- Social Transformation
- Teacher Autonomy
Expertise
- Equity
- Institutional Contexts
- Leadership
- Multicultural Education
- Secondary Education
- Teaching
- Underserved Students
Research Centers
Titles and Positions
- Director, UCLA Center for Community Schooling
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Education
- Affiliated Faculty, UCLA Center for Community Engagement
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
- American Educational Research Association Outstanding Book Award
- American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Outstanding Writing Award
- National Teacher-Powered Schools Initiative Advancement in Research Award
- UCLA Department of Education Outstanding Teaching Award
- UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophical Foundations of Educational Policy and Practice, University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A., Philosophy of Science, University of Western Ontario
- B.A., Honours, Philosophy, Huron College
Select Publications
- Francois, A. & Quartz, K.H. (Eds.) (2021). Preparing and sustaining social justice educators in urban schools. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.
- Quartz, K.H. (2020). Democracy, justice and education: Framing the impact of university-assisted community schools. Universities and Community Schools 10(1), 5-17.
- Kawasaki, J., Quartz, K.H. & Martinez, J.F. (2020). Using multiple measures of teaching quality to strengthen teacher preparation. Education Policy Analysis Archives.
- Quartz, K.H., Geller, R.C., & McQueen, S.S. (2020). A beautiful struggle: Reimagining neighborhood schools in urban communities. Teachers College Record.
- Daniels, J., Quartz, K.H., & Oakes, J. (2019). Teaching in community schools: Creating conditions for deeper learning. Review of Research in Education.
- Quartz, K.H., Murillo, M., Trinchero, B., & Neri, R. (2019). Framing, supporting, and tracking college-for-all reform: A local case of public scholarship. High School Journal.
- Quartz, K. H., Weinstein, R. S., Kaufman, G., Levine, H., Mehan, H., Pollock, M., Priselac, J. Z. & Worrell, F. C. (2017). University-partnered new school designs: Fertile ground for research-practice partnerships. Educational Researcher, 46(3), 143-146.
- Quartz, K.H., Olsen, B., Anderson, L.M., Lyons, K.B. (2009). Making a difference: Career pathways in urban education. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
- Quartz, K.H. & TEP Research Group (2003). Too angry to leave: Supporting new teachers’ commitment to transform urban schools. Journal of Teacher Education.
- Oakes, J., Quartz, K.H., Ryan, S., Lipton, M. (2000). Becoming good American schools: The struggle for civic virtue in educational reform. San Francisco: Wiley.